And also it's an ever-gathering process. If I pick up the Sporting News or some sports publication and there's an article on somebody and I think I might see that player, I will tear it out and put it in a file, and I have a looseleaf book so when we're going to play that particular team I take out all these clippings and things I pulled out, I go through them, highlight them, put them in the book.

Statistics are used much like a drunk uses a lamppost: for support, not illumination.

Losing feels worse than winning feels good.

I really love baseball. The guys and the game, and I love the challenge of describing things.

It's a wonderful feeling to be a bridge to the past and to unite generations. The sport of baseball does that, and I am just a part of it.

Some people die twice: once when they retire, and again when they actually pass away. Fear of the first one is a big incentive for me to keep working.

I've always felt that I was talking to one person. But I've never envisioned who that one person is.